The pid value is the process ID of a local Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JVM must be running with the same user ID as the user ID running the jconsole command.The host:port values are the name of the host system on which the JVM is running, and the port number specified by the system property com.sun.management.jmxremote.port when the JVM was started.The jmxUrl value is the address of the JMX agent to be connected to as described in JMXServiceURL.

Specifies a list of directories or JAR files to be searched for JConsole plug-ins. The plugins path should contain a provider-configuration file named META-INF/services/com.sun.tools.jconsole.JConsolePlugin that contains one line for each plug-in. The line specifies the fully qualified class name of the class implementing the com.sun.tools.jconsole.JConsolePlugin class.